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WinSCP is an open source free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows. WinSCP is commonly used by power users to upload files to web servers. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and .NET assembly to automate file transfer tasks.

I am using a WinSCP (SFTP) script to move files off a SFTP server. Something like this:
get *.ecx
But this only "copies" files from remote to local. I need to move files off the server. What server ...

I have come across WinSCP (http://winscp.net/) which I think is a fantastic client to work with my EC2 Ubuntu instance as a graphical alternative to PuTTY.
Is it possible to add a different terminal ...

I've batch script that runs winscp with script, and sometimes WinSCP hangs when is "Connecting to host".
Is it possible to set timeout that WinSCP stops trying to connect and shuts it's self after x ...

I am using WinSCP and it has the option to use custom commands remotely.
I want to zip some files and folders. WinSCP has a command that can zip a file or folder but I have to enter the name for the ...

I am on a Window 7 machine so I am left to using a tool like WinSCP to manage my remote servers which run Ubuntu.
I do use a good old command line too but for file management I generally use WinSCP, ...

It had been all right all day until a few hours ago when WinSCP suddenly started keeping giving out the hideous "Host is not communicating for more than 15 seconds. Still waiting..." error. I tried to ...

I have a Linux server, where when I connect by PuTTY, I first need to log in using a non-root account (let's say user1), and then issue the command su root or su - root to log in to the root account. ...

I have been trying to run a task scheduler named "Backup" that downloads the specified file from the FTP server to my local directory.
When I executed the command manually from the winscp console it ...

I am attempting to access large log files on a remote server from my Windows desktop. I only have FTP access to this remote machine, not SSH access.
At the moment, I'm using WinSCP to pull the entire ...

This is a fairly simple problem to explain but it is really annoying me and I could do with some advice. How to I ensure that apache is user : group owner of a dir no matter who uploads to it..
the ...

In the task scheduler, I have created three tasks, which make use of WinSCP. The purpose is to collect a text file from one server and put it to another server.
These three jobs were scheduled to run ...

Is it possible to view the contents of a remote PXE/TFTP Server on a Windows PC? I would like to get the pxelinux.0 file off of a remote server, but when I connect using WinSCP or just Explorer I get ...

I am planning to sync around 200 very small files per hour (less than 1KB each file), the source files are on a remote SFTP server and the destination files are on a Windows Server. My fear is the too ...

I am currently connected to a windows server. I installed winscp on it. I run the winscp and connect to a linux server. Now on the GUI of the winscp, i clicked the console, and use the scp command. ...

My situation:
I have VPS(ubuntu) with 2 websites on it. As i am new to VPS'ses (recently i've moved from Shared Hosting) i spent almost 2 weeks on learning how to configure my VPS to run all webs in ...

I have to login onto a remote Linux target using a local windows machine. I was using Putty and WinSCP as a GUI utilities to login. But I have a requirement which needs to automate the login procedure ...

I'm on a Win7 box connecting to a linux server.
From reading: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_su it looks like I need to open my SCP connections as the particular user.
When I connect via SSH, I can ...

I have the public key with me(the pub file), for using sftp with public key authentication mode. How do i use sftp command for testing transfer file from my machine to the sftp server. For username ...